If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity. ~

During his 40 years in national politics Webster served in the House of Representatives for 10 years (representing New Hampshire) in the Senate for 19 years (representing Massachusetts) and was appointed the Secretary of State under three presidents Webster took part in several key U. He was a spokesman for modernization banking and industry but not for the common people who composed the base of his enemies in Jacksonian Democracy. Webster was considered the Northern member of a trio known as the "Great Triumvirate" with his colleagues Henry Clay from the West (Kentucky) and John C.